c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character." — W. Somerset Maugham
"If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?" — Keith O'Brien
"Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her." — King Edward VIII
"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics." — George Bernard Shaw
"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith." — Heinrich Heine
"No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences." — David R. Ellis
"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain." — Frank Luntz
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy." — Anais Nin
"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father." — Jean de La Fontaine
"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days." — Sylvia Plath
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." — Thomas Paine
"The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming." — Paul Theroux
"This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception." — Robert Teeter
"I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more." — Dave Davies
"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain." — William Styron
"I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids." — Michele Bachmann
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature." — Lewis Thomas
"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me." — Kevin Bacon
"Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all." — Heinrich Heine
"My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people." — Lindsay Lohan
"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen." — Robert A. Heinlein
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations." — Claude Vorilhon
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Watterson
"Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do." — Charles Schumer
"Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves." — Sean Durkin
"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve." — Henry David Thoreau
"Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense." — Tippi Hedren
"Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs." — Eliot Spitzer
"I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is." — Lindsey Shaw
"Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man." — Henry Adams
"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps." — Joe Murray
"I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school." — Jake Lloyd
"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery." — John Henry Newman
"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it." — Marc Jacobs
"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time." — Karl Marx
"I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist." — Chuck Palahniuk
"I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes." — Lawrence Kasdan
"There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that." — Marilyn Manson
"Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq." — Norman Schwarzkopf
"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one." — Mignon McLaughlin
"A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence." — Barbara Walters
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." — Thomas Jefferson
"Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests." — Alain Badiou
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." — James Madison
"My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'" — Pink
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income." — Robert Half
"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought." — David Hockney
"Humor is just another defense against the universe." — Mel Brooks
"To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled." — Dale Murphy
"If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery." — Justin Long
"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust." — Lance Secretan
"I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes." — Sherilyn Fenn
"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times." — Winston Churchill
"We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do." — Jacob Bronowski
"Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference." — Paul Davies
"I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past." — Kalpana Chawla
"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government." — Colin Powell
"If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back." — David Hasselhoff
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back." — Robert Morgan
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line." — Joseph Conrad
"The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed." — Paul Engle
"The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people." — Mark Ruffalo
"If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end." — Rosanne Cash
"I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it." — Sarah McLachlan